Start from NRCan's current funding opportunities list, match your organization to one open call, read that call's applicant guide, and apply through the route that call names, since there is no single form for all NRCan grants and contributions.
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Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) does not run one application form for all of its grants and contributions. Funding is offered call by call, and each call names its own eligible recipients, its own amounts, its own deadline, and its own way to submit. An organization that starts by looking for a general NRCan funding form will waste the step that matters most, which is finding the call that fits the project and is actually open. This guide walks the general route: find the open call, test eligibility against that call alone, read its applicant guide, prepare the material that guide asks for, submit through the route that guide names, and then work through acknowledgement, decision, due diligence, and agreement. It uses three official examples to show how calls differ, the Critical Minerals Infrastructure Fund (CMIF), the Indigenous Forestry Initiative (IFI), and Energy Innovation Program (EIP) calls, and it does not present any closed call as open. Figures in this guide belong to the call named beside them. A figure from one call never proves the terms of another.
Start on Current Funding Opportunities. That page separates open calls from closed calls whose applications are in review, and it describes itself as open calls for project ideas and proposals for projects in Canada. As of October 31, 2026, the open list included the Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage Front-End Engineering and Design call, the Innovation Ecosystem Enablers call, the Indigenous Forestry Initiative, the Home Labelling Fund, programs and funding for critical minerals projects, the Clean Fuels Fund, the WildFireSat program, and the Zero-Emission Vehicle Infrastructure Program and Zero-Emission Vehicle Awareness Initiative. The closed list on the same page included the Advanced Materials for Energy and Defence call, the Green Construction through Wood program, Investments in Forest Industry Transformation, the Global Forest Leadership Program, the Forest Innovation Program, several Energy Innovation Program calls including the Renewable Energy Demonstrations Call, and the Climate Change Adaptation Program. Treat that snapshot as dated the moment you read it. Calls move, and the page gives names only in the text, without amounts or deadlines beside each name, so every name on the open list still needs its own call page checked before any work begins.
Use the NRCan funding listing as a second check rather than as the starting point. The Funding listing shows numbered results with a short description for each, including the Indigenous Forestry Initiative contribution and grant streams, and it is a filtered view, so a call missing from one page of results is not proof that the call does not exist. If the two NRCan pages disagree about whether a call is open, trust the call's own page over either list, and write down the date you checked, because a call that was open last week can be in review this week. Do not confuse this route with the Greener Homes grant route or with Employment and Social Development Canada's Grants and Contributions Online Services. The Government of Canada sign-in list keeps those apart: it lists the NRCan Funding Portal for organizations applying for NRCan grants and contributions including Critical Minerals, the Greener Homes portal for managing a Greener Homes grant application, and the NRCan eServices Portal for an Extractive Sector Transparency Measures Act report, as three separate rows. This guide covers NRCan grants and contributions generally, not a homeowner retrofit grant and not another department's system.
Once a call is open, read its eligibility section before drafting anything, because eligibility is defined call by call and the recipient lists do not transfer. The Renewable Energy Demonstration Call for Proposals Applicant Guide lists eligible Canadian recipients as legal entities validly incorporated or registered in Canada, including for-profit and not-for-profit organizations, community groups, and Canadian academic institutions, provincial, territorial, regional and municipal governments and their departments and agencies where applicable, and legal entities validly incorporated or registered in Canada including Indigenous communities or governments, Tribal Councils or entities fulfilling a similar function, national or regional Indigenous councils or tribal organizations, and Indigenous for-profit or not-for-profit organizations majority owned and controlled by Indigenous people. That guide then splits applicants into Stream 1, open to all eligible recipients, and Stream 2, open to eligible Indigenous recipients, and directs projects with Indigenous partners who are not the lead applicant to Stream 1. Those stream rules belong to that call. A different call can split its streams differently, and the Innovation Ecosystem Enablers call organizes itself by focus area instead, with each focus area accepting applications on a rolling basis.
Check the grant or contribution label and the stream together, using the call's own words. CMIF, on the Critical Minerals Infrastructure Fund page, has two avenues: grants to support Indigenous engagement, participation and capacity building related to infrastructure projects that would enable critical minerals development, and contribution funding for preconstruction activities and shovel-ready infrastructure projects. IFI runs the same pairing at a smaller scale. The Indigenous Forestry Initiative grant page offers grants of up to $45,000 per project to Indigenous communities and other entities holding collective Indigenous and Treaty rights under Section 35, and it sends Indigenous entities that do not hold collective rights to contribution funding. A later NRCan bulletin adds status wording for IFI that the grant page alone does not carry: the program provides funding through two streams, non-repayable contributions and grants, the most recent call for contribution applications closed on May 13, 2026, and the grant stream is described as ongoing, with applications assessed quarterly and grants of up to $45,000 available. Both wordings are preserved here because the open-opportunities list names IFI without distinguishing streams, and an applicant who assumes the contribution call is open on the strength of the open list alone would be applying to a closed call. Confirm the stream's status on the call page on the day of applying, and keep the bulletin wording and the grant page wording side by side until the call page settles the question.
Work through the project test in the same pass. A call can limit the resource, the technology, the place, or the stage of the project, and failing any one of those ends the application no matter how strong the organization looks. The closed Renewable Energy Demonstration guide limited renewable resources to solar, wind, geothermal, and marine energy, put bioenergy, nuclear, and conventional hydro out of scope for that call, required projects to start at Technology Readiness Level 6 or higher, and required a minimum installed capacity of 100 kW electrical or 300 kW thermal. The Innovation Ecosystem Enablers call instead funds enabling projects, such as shared infrastructure, workforce and technical capacity, market validation, and knowledge and evidence for policy and regulatory decisions, with a focus area on process and technology testing facilities. Neither test can be borrowed for the other call. If the project does not fit the call's project test, stop and return to section 1 rather than reshaping the project description to fit.
The applicant guide is the document that decides the budget, the timeline, and the evidence. Read it end to end before writing a word of the proposal, and note every figure with the call name beside it. In the closed Renewable Energy Demonstration guide, the funding terms were specific to that call: demonstration projects requesting between $500,000 and $4,000,000 over up to five years, Stream 1 able to request up to 50% of total project cost, Stream 2 able to request up to 100%, a minimum contribution of $500,000 and a maximum of $4,000,000 in both streams, maximum government stacking of 100% of total project cost, and projects starting on or after April 1, 2025 and no later than March 31, 2026. Those terms are carried here only as an example of how precise a guide can be, and only for that call, which is now closed. The open Innovation Ecosystem Enablers call page states no funding amount, so this guide states none for it. An amount found in a summary, a news item, or another call's guide is not a term of the open call, and building a budget around it risks a proposal that is ineligible on its first page.
Pay attention to the cost rules inside the guide, since they decide what the budget can claim. The Renewable Energy Demonstration guide lists eligible expenditures as salaries and benefits for employees on the recipient's payroll for actual time on the project, training and workshops, professional, scientific, technical and contracting services, travel including meals and accommodation at National Joint Council rates, capital expenditures such as qualifying equipment, materials and products, other project expenses including laboratory and field supplies, printing and translation, data collection, facility costs, construction insurance, accreditation, licence fees and permits, honoraria, and field testing services, and overhead up to a maximum of 15% of eligible expenditures, plus GST, PST or HST net of any rebate. In-kind contributions count toward total project cost under that guide's definitions but are ineligible for reimbursement, and purchase of land is listed as a non-permissible expenditure. Stacking matters in the same section: the recipient must disclose all anticipated funding sources, clearly identifying other Canadian government sources, and if actual total government assistance exceeds eligible expenditures NRCan will adjust its contribution and seek reimbursement if necessary. Other guides will set different eligible lists and different overhead or stacking limits. Copy the list from the guide for the call being answered, and leave out any cost the guide does not allow, rather than arguing for it in the proposal.
Note the dates and the decision clock in the guide as well, and keep them separate. A call can carry an Expression of Interest deadline, a full proposal deadline, a project start window, and a service standard for the decision, and each runs from a different event. The service standards page explains that the decision standard runs from reception of a duly completed application deemed acceptable by NRCan, or from the closing date of a call for proposals, and that decision commitments vary by program. Put the call's own deadline in the calendar first, then the decision standard for that program, and do not plan spending around either date until an agreement is signed, as section 5 explains.
Preparation follows the guide, not a generic template. For a two-phase Energy Innovation Program call, the first submission is an Expression of Interest, and the full proposal comes only if NRCan invites it. The Renewable Energy Demonstration Call for Proposals Applicant Guide describes Phase 1 as determining eligibility, completing and submitting an Expression of Interest, review by a technical review committee, and notification of results with invitations to the full proposal phase, and Phase 2 as completing and submitting a full project proposal, review by a technical review committee, and notification of project selection. Partners do not need to be confirmed at the Expression of Interest phase under that guide, while projects invited to the full proposal phase must provide a letter of support for each fully committed partner, including the organization's name, the name and signature of the person endorsing the letter, the amount and timing of funding, the type of contribution, and any conditions, with the strength of the letters considered in review. Foreign entities may act as partners under that guide, though the lead recipient test still applies. The open Innovation Ecosystem Enablers call uses the same two phases and adds that earlier receipt may affect the order of priority for review, since submissions are reviewed on a rolling basis until funding is allocated. Draft the Expression of Interest to stand on its own, with the project, the fit to the call objectives, and the budget shape clear in that short form, because there may be no second chance to explain the project before the invitation decision.
Build the budget from the guide's cost rules, with every other funding source disclosed. Include salaries and benefits only as the guide allows, capital only where the guide allows it, overhead only within the guide's cap, and in-kind support only as the guide defines and values it. The Renewable Energy Demonstration guide defines total project cost as eligible plus ineligible expenditures, excluding non-permissible expenditures, and requires disclosure of all anticipated Canadian and non-Canadian funding sources including approved in-kind funding. It also notes that collaboration and leveraging are strongly encouraged and that additional points may be awarded to full proposals leveraging non-government funding, while that point does not apply to Indigenous applicants eligible for up to 100% of total project cost. Do not hide another government contribution to make the stacking arithmetic look cleaner. NRCan adjusts its contribution if total government assistance exceeds eligible expenditures, and a disclosure made late reads worse than a disclosure made in the application.
Answer the questions the guide asks about community benefit, consultation, and environmental review at the stage the guide asks them, in the guide's terms. The Renewable Energy Demonstration guide asks applicants to describe how the project will positively impact local communities across affordability, access to renewable energy, participation, and energy security, and it aims to fund at least one project led by an Indigenous applicant. It also requires reporting at the full proposal phase on any consultation or engagement already conducted, and it asks applicants to identify whether the project will be carried out in whole or in part on federal lands, since an impact assessment may be required during due diligence. Applicants are not required to consult with Indigenous groups as part of the application process under that guide, while NRCan holds the legal duty to consult where Crown conduct may adversely affect Aboriginal or Treaty rights. The IFI grant page asks for a different kind of evidence: project purpose and expected outcome, work and financial plans, and team capacity, assessed on a competitive basis alongside merits, risks, and the method for determining the grant amount. Write to the call's questions, in the call's language, and leave a question blank only where the guide allows it.
Submission routes differ by call, and the route is part of the call, not a matter of preference. For Energy Innovation Program calls, the guide names an application portal. The Innovation Ecosystem Enablers call directs applicants to complete and submit Expressions of Interest via the application portal, and the closed Renewable Energy Demonstration guide names the applicant portal as the access point for Expressions of Interest, with separate deadlines for its two streams. The Indigenous Forestry Initiative grant page gives two routes and a clear instruction to use only one: download the fillable PDF form and submit the completed form to ifi-ifa@nrcan-rncan.gc.ca, or submit an online application through Natural Resources Canada's eServices Portal. That eServices Portal wording on the IFI page sits alongside the sign-in list's separate Funding Portal row, and this guide does not reconcile the two names. Use the wording on the call page, follow the link or address on that page, and do not substitute a portal address remembered from another program. For CMIF, no application route can be given for a new submission, because the Critical Minerals Infrastructure Fund page marks both avenues closed and in review. Sending material to a closed call, or to an inbox named on an old form, is not an application.
Before submitting, run the call's own completeness check. The service standards page ties the standards to complete documentation submitted in a timely fashion, and the Renewable Energy Demonstration guide makes the applicant responsible for ensuring eligibility criteria are met and the Expression of Interest is fully completed and successfully submitted by the deadline. Confirm the legal name matches the organization's registration, the stream selected matches the recipient test, the budget respects the call's percentage, minimum, maximum, and stacking limits, partner letters are present where the phase requires them, and every mandatory field in the portal or form is filled. Keep a copy of the submitted form or portal confirmation, the date and time of submission, and any acknowledgement that follows, together in one file. If the call is rolling, as the Innovation Ecosystem Enablers call is, note the submission date carefully, since the call page says the time submissions are received may impact the order of priority for review and selection. Questions during an intake period should go to the mailbox named in the call, and the Renewable Energy Demonstration guide warns that the program team will not hold meetings or calls with individual applicants during intake, with an exception for Stream 2 applicants, so an email question answered in writing is the record to keep.
After submission, the first expected contact is an acknowledgement, not a decision. Natural Resources Canada's Service Standards for Transfer Payment Programs commit NRCan to acknowledge receipt within five business days of the date received, 95% of the time, under normal circumstances. If no acknowledgement arrives inside that window, contact the program mailbox named in the call and ask whether the submission was received and deemed complete, rather than resubmitting and creating a duplicate. The decision follows on the program's own timeframe, as described in the FAQ, and the standards page notes that timing may depend on the applicant's responsiveness to department requests. For the IFI grant stream, the grant page adds that Regional Liaison Officers can answer questions and provide updates on the status of an application, and that NRCan will keep unfunded applications for future consideration without requiring a fresh application. That no-reapplication wording belongs to IFI; do not assume it for another call.
Selection does not end the process for contribution funding. Successful applicants under the Renewable Energy Demonstration guide undergo due diligence covering financial, technical, legal, and regulatory components, with two months to fulfill due diligence requirements, longer where regulatory obligations are triggered, and with financial due diligence possibly including a detailed budget and statement of work, a third-party financial audit, or three major financial statements. Legal due diligence includes proof of registration in Canada, plus permits and conflict of interest sections in the budget and statement of work. Regulatory due diligence covers Impact Assessment Act obligations for projects on federal lands or outside Canada and the duty to consult under section 35. Applicants who pass due diligence are invited to draft, sign, and execute a contribution agreement, and the guide states that no commitment exists until that agreement is signed by both parties. Do not incur project costs in reliance on a selection notice alone, and check the guide's retroactivity wording for the call, since the Renewable Energy Demonstration guide limits retroactive expenditures to 30% of NRCan's contribution and sets an eligible expenditure period running from conditional approval or April 1 of the fiscal year the agreement is signed. The Innovation Ecosystem Enablers call page states no due diligence timeline in the text, so no timeline is stated for it here.
Once an agreement is in place, payment and reporting follow the agreement and the service standards, not the application. The service standards page sets payment within 30 business days of fulfillment of the agreement requirements or issue of a grant award letter, aimed to be met 90% of the time. The Renewable Energy Demonstration guide requires quarterly and yearly outcome reporting after entering a contribution agreement, with reporting frequency set by recipient and project risk and at minimum annual reporting, a financial report signed by the Chief Financial Officer or duly authorized officer, a project cash flow statement or budget, and a status report on a template supplied by NRCan, plus a project completion report, a public report describing the project and its results, and annual outcomes reports for five years following project completion. Approved projects may also face external recipient audits on a risk basis, and the agreement will set asset disposition terms. Read the agreement's reporting schedule before signing, calendar every report, and keep the financial records the agreement requires, since a missed report can hold up the next payment even where the work itself is on track.
No single form covers every NRCan program, and the official pages use more than one portal name, so follow the route named in the call you are answering. The Government of Canada sign-in list carries a row for the [NRCan Funding Portal](https://www.canada.ca/en/government/sign-in-online-account.html), described as for organizations to apply for NRCan Grants and contributions, including Critical Minerals. That same list keeps the [NRCan Funding Portal](https://www.canada.ca/en/government/sign-in-online-account.html) separate from the NRCan eServices Portal, which it describes as the route for submitting an annual Extractive Sector Transparency Measures Act report, and separate again from the Greener Homes portal. The Energy Innovation Program guides add further wording: the [Renewable Energy Demonstration Call for Proposals Applicant Guide](https://natural-resources.canada.ca/funding-partnerships/renewable-energy-demonstration-call-proposals-applicant-guide) calls its route the applicant portal and the application portal, while the [Indigenous Forestry Initiative grant page](https://natural-resources.canada.ca/forest-forestry/forest-programs/indigenous-forestry-initiative-grant-funding) says to submit online through Natural Resources Canada's eServices Portal or, offline, by email. This guide preserves each wording where it belongs and does not treat the three names as one system. Start from [Current Funding Opportunities](https://natural-resources.canada.ca/funding-partnerships/current-funding-opportunities), open the call, and use only the submission route that call gives.
The words mark different funding instruments inside a particular call, and the practical difference is spelled out in that call's guide rather than in a single department-wide definition. A contribution call in the Energy Innovation Program example works through a signed agreement. The [Renewable Energy Demonstration Call for Proposals Applicant Guide](https://natural-resources.canada.ca/funding-partnerships/renewable-energy-demonstration-call-proposals-applicant-guide) states that any funding under that call is contingent on executing a contribution agreement, that until a written contribution agreement is signed by both parties no commitment or obligation exists on NRCan's part, and that Stream 1 contribution agreements use a reimbursement model in which the recipient incurs the expense first and is reimbursed later. The same guide says contributions under that call are non-repayable. The [Indigenous Forestry Initiative](https://natural-resources.canada.ca/forest-forestry/forest-programs/indigenous-forestry-initiative-grant-funding) runs both instruments side by side: a grant stream of up to $45,000 per project and a contribution stream, with the grant page directing Indigenous entities that do not hold collective rights to apply for contribution funding instead. The [Critical Minerals Infrastructure Fund](https://www.canada.ca/en/campaign/critical-minerals-in-canada/federal-support-for-critical-mineral-projects-and-value-chains/critical-minerals-infrastructure-fund1.html) likewise has two avenues, grants for Indigenous engagement, participation and capacity building, and contribution funding for preconstruction activities and shovel-ready infrastructure projects. Do not assume a grant in one call carries the same reporting or agreement terms as a grant in another, and do not assume a contribution is repayable: read the call's own terms before deciding which avenue fits.
Not on the official page. As of October 26, 2026, the [Critical Minerals Infrastructure Fund](https://www.canada.ca/en/campaign/critical-minerals-in-canada/federal-support-for-critical-mineral-projects-and-value-chains/critical-minerals-infrastructure-fund1.html) page marks both avenues closed for applications and says applications from the most recent call for proposals are currently in review. For the grant avenue, that call would provide up to $3 million in grant funding, with the maximum per organization ranging from $150,000 to $200,000 depending on the location of the applicant or Indigenous partner organization. For the contribution avenue, the call would provide up to $500 million in contribution funding across the preconstruction and shovel-ready streams. The fund itself will provide federal funding until 2030 for clean energy and transportation infrastructure projects necessary to enable the sustainable development and expansion of critical minerals in Canada, and the page reports up to $421.9 million in announced CMIF funding contributions as of March 2026. Because the page says the most recent applications are in review, do not send an application to the closed call. Watch the same [Critical Minerals Infrastructure Fund](https://www.canada.ca/en/campaign/critical-minerals-in-canada/federal-support-for-critical-mineral-projects-and-value-chains/critical-minerals-infrastructure-fund1.html) page and the [Current Funding Opportunities](https://natural-resources.canada.ca/funding-partnerships/current-funding-opportunities) list for a new call, and prepare only against a guide published for that new call, since amounts, streams, and deadlines belong to a specific call.
The grant stream and the contribution stream answer that question differently, and the two streams were in different states on the official pages. Grants under the [Indigenous Forestry Initiative grant page](https://natural-resources.canada.ca/forest-forestry/forest-programs/indigenous-forestry-initiative-grant-funding) are available to Indigenous communities and other entities who hold collective Indigenous and Treaty rights under Section 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982, with a note that Indigenous entities that do not hold collective rights should apply for contribution funding. Grants of up to $45,000 per project support preparation for and participation in sustainable forest management planning, forest policy development, and activities related to free, prior and informed consent in the forest sector, and eligible activities include gathering, developing and protecting Indigenous Knowledge, increasing internal capacity for engagement and consultation, hiring subject matter experts, and land use or sustainable forest management planning. The grant page itself states no closing date. A later official NRCan bulletin describes the grant stream as ongoing, with applications assessed quarterly, and the contribution stream's most recent call as closed on May 13, 2026. That bulletin wording is preserved in section 2, and the [Current Funding Opportunities](https://natural-resources.canada.ca/funding-partnerships/current-funding-opportunities) page lists the Indigenous Forestry Initiative among its open opportunities without distinguishing the streams. Before applying, confirm on the grant page which stream is accepting applications on the day, and apply by only one of the two routes the grant page gives: email the completed form to the address on the page, or submit online through the eServices Portal wording on that page, not both.
Two phases means a short first submission decides who is invited to write the full proposal, and an invitation is not a funding commitment. In the [Renewable Energy Demonstration Call for Proposals Applicant Guide](https://natural-resources.canada.ca/funding-partnerships/renewable-energy-demonstration-call-proposals-applicant-guide), Phase 1 is an Expression of Interest open to all eligible applicants, reviewed by a technical review committee, after which NRCan notifies applicants of the results and invites successful applicants to Phase 2, the Full Project Proposal phase, open to invited applicants only. The same guide states plainly that an invitation to the Full Project Proposal phase does not represent a funding commitment from NRCan. That particular call is closed: the [Current Funding Opportunities](https://natural-resources.canada.ca/funding-partnerships/current-funding-opportunities) page lists the Renewable Energy Demonstrations Call among closed opportunities with applications in review, and its 2024 deadlines have passed, so its figures are used in this guide only as a worked example of how a call is structured. One Energy Innovation Program call was open on the official pages. The [Innovation Ecosystem Enablers call](https://natural-resources.canada.ca/funding-partnerships/energy-innovation-program/innovation-ecosystem-enablers-call-proposals) is marked Open, started June 23, 2026, accepts applications on a rolling basis until all available program funding has been allocated, has no fixed closing date, and uses the same two phases, with the Expression of Interest phase open to all eligible applicants and the Full Project Proposal phase open to invited applicants only. Read the applicant guide for the open call before borrowing any figure from the closed Renewable Energy Demonstration guide.
NRCan publishes service standards for transfer payment programs, and the standards separate the three steps, so expect three different clocks rather than one waiting period. [Natural Resources Canada's Service Standards for Transfer Payment Programs](https://natural-resources.canada.ca/transparency/reporting-and-accountability/plans-and-performance-reports/natural-resources-canadas-service-standards-for-transfer-payment-programs/22265) state that NRCan will acknowledge receipt of an application or proposal within five business days of the date received, 95% of the time, and that achievement of the standards depends on submission of all required and complete documentation in a timely fashion. For the funding decision, the same page states that NRCan will issue an official written notification within an established timeframe specific to each program, that the standard runs from reception of a duly completed application deemed acceptable by NRCan, or from the closing date of a call for proposals, and that decision commitments vary by program to reflect each program's unique assessment process, with a target of meeting the program's decision standard 90% of the time. The 2024-2025 results table on that page gives program examples rather than promises: a 140-day decision standard for the Critical Minerals Infrastructure Fund, a 95-day standard for Energy Innovation Program contributions, and a 150-day standard for the Indigenous Forestry Initiative contribution, each with its own historical percentage met. For payment, the standard is issuance within 30 business days of either successful fulfillment of the requirements in the contribution agreement or the date of issue of a grant award letter, aimed to be met 90% of the time. Check the decision standard for the specific program in the current table, keep the application complete, and do not treat a past table's percentage met as a guarantee for a new call.
No single NRCan funding portal address, no Innovation Ecosystem Enablers funding amount, no IFI contribution-stream amount or current deadline, no current CMIF application route or deadline, and no general grant-versus-contribution definition are stated in this guide, because none was verified on an official page. Figures not stated in this guide: the $1.5 billion CMIF envelope and any $13.5 million Indigenous Grants total, which appeared only in secondary sources while the CMIF page states the $3 million and $500 million call figures and the $421.9 million announced total; the ISO 50001 assistance percentages and $40,000 per-building figure, the Multi-Partner Research Initiative $20 million figure, and the Offshore Wind Round 2 amounts and October 30, 2026 deadline, none of which was verified by opening the program page; any direct Funding Portal or EIP portal web address, since no official page verified a current address and the guides name the portals without giving one that could be copied verbatim; and any claim that the IFI contribution stream is currently open, since the bulletin wording says its most recent call closed May 13, 2026. Conflicts preserved rather than reconciled: the Funding Portal, application portal, applicant portal, and eServices Portal wordings for different routes; the IFI open-listing wording against the closed contribution-call wording; and the program-specific decision standards against the general decision wording. Recheck the Current Funding Opportunities page, the call page, and the call's applicant guide on the day of applying, since open and closed status, amounts, and deadlines belong to the specific call and change between calls.